This course aims to introduce students to the theoretical and practical issues in the compilation of conventional dictionaries and computational lexicons, with particular focus on the use of computers and corpora in contemporary practice.  Students will acquire the techniques in discovering word usage and distinguishing word senses from corpus data as an essential step in composing a word entry in a dictionary.  The construction of lexical resources especially semantic lexicons for machine use and methods for automatic lexical acquisition will also be discussed.

Continuous Assessment: 100%